I am struggling to regain my supervisor’s trust. I am afraid of losing my job, so I am always looking over my shoulder, wondering what she will find next. What else can I do to regain her confidence and trust and get out from under the microscope

I work in a busy, growing medical office with five support staff, and I share duties with a coworker who just turned seventy and has been with the clinic since it opened. We don’t have an office manager, so the clinic owners expect us, as peers, to come up with policies and procedures for the front desk, solve problems, and strategize on improvements.

I have a beautiful, talented twenty-four-year-old daughter who is fifty pounds overweight. She is currently in graduate school and has not been in the job market for the last two years. I worry about her health, and the bias she will face seeking a job as an overweight individual, and I ache for her lack of a social life.

How to have a respectful crucial conversation even when you know you’re right and the other person is wrong.